1682

Year 1682 (MDCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1682

[edit] January - June

• March 11 - The Chelsea Hospital for Soldiers is founded in England.
• April 7 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, exploring rivers in America, reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River.
• April 9 - At the mouth of the Mississippi River, near modern Venice, Louisiana, Robert de La Salle buries an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory as La Louisiane for France.
• May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
• May 7 - The reign of Peter the Great officially begins.
• May 11 - Moscow Uprising of 1682: A mob takes over the Kremlin and lynches the leading boyars and military commanders.

[edit] July - December

• July 19 - Iyasus succeeds his father Yohannes I as Emperor of Ethiopia.
• August 12 - Vesuvius begins a period of volcanic activity lasting for 10 days.
• September - Halley's comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself.
• September 14 - Bishop Gore School in Swansea, Wales is founded.
• October 12 - Sultan Mehmed IV departs Istanbul for Adrianople.
• October 19 - Kara Mustafa departs with the Ottoman army to Adrianople.
• October 27 - The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn.
• October 31 - In the city of Bideford, Guenevere Damascus, her lover (name unknown) and their spiritual mentor are among the last to be burned at the stake for witchcraft in England. They had been accused of speaking in unknown languages as well as practicing knowledge beyond their natural abilities, and acting in peculiar manners.

[edit] Undated

• The first black slaves arrive in Germany.
• The Richard Wall House is built in Pennsylvania.

[edit] Births

• February 25 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
• April 16 - John Hadley, English inventor (d. 1744)
• June 27 - King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
• July 10 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
• August 16 - Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (d. 1712)
• October 29 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)

See also Category: 1681 births.

[edit] Deaths

• February 25 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1644)
• March 14 - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (b. c. 1628)
• April 1 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1625)
• April 3 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)
• May 7 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
• July 12 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
• September 8 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
• October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne English author, physician, and philosopher (b. 1605)
• November 19 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
• November 23 - Claude Lorrain French painter (b. c. 1600)
• date unknown Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia
• date unknown Turhan Hatice, regent of the Ottoman empire (b. 1627)

See also Category: 1681 deaths.